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14
since Jun 2026
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2,091
all time, on the political parties
This week
0
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Written opinions
104
all time, left by voters
Last week's opinion highlightThe most respected opinion last week
“Dismissing voters of insurgent parties as 'politically ignorant' is lazy and patronising. People turn to the Greens or Reform not because they necessarily lack understanding, but because the Westminster consensus has failed them on wages, benefits, public services, housing, climate, etc, etc. Whether you agree with their policies or not, these votes reflect genuine, rational disillusionment with e”
BenL, debating No on “Do Reform UK and the Greens win support mainly from voters with little political knowledge?” · read the thread →
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- 2.HonestCompass655 respects
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- 4.Astobie14 respects
- 5.HardCompact3 respects
Who answered last week
The 388 placed voters lean Centre Right overall.
Regions last week
Votes each week
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All-time parties highlights
Biggest landslide
NO 81%
Is it a problem that the Scottish Labour leadership contest has only male candidates?
81% of 306 votes went the same way.
Closest result
50 / 50
Would a Makerfield by-election victory justify making Andy Burnham prime minister without a leadership contest?
Dead level — an exact tie.
Most debated
NO 57%
Do Reform UK and the Greens win support mainly from voters with little political knowledge?
23 written opinions.
Last week
2 settled · 634 votes
Do Reform UK and the Greens win support mainly from voters with little political knowledge?
The verdict
“Dismissing voters of insurgent parties as ‘politically ignorant’ is lazy and patronising” was the floor’s sharpest line. No won, but the real verdict was against the label.
Is it a problem that the Scottish Labour leadership contest has only male candidates?
The verdict
“Capability trumps DEI” was the floor’s sharpest No line: No prevailed decisively, while the Yes side warned that nomination rules can still shut women out of the top table.
Every parties verdict
- NO 57%Do Reform UK and the Greens win support mainly from voters with little political knowledge?“Dismissing voters of insurgent parties as ‘politically ignorant’ is lazy and patronising” was the floor’s sharpest line. No won, but the real verdict was against the label.
- NO 81%Is it a problem that the Scottish Labour leadership contest has only male candidates?“Capability trumps DEI” was the floor’s sharpest No line: No prevailed decisively, while the Yes side warned that nomination rules can still shut women out of the top table.
- YES 59%Is Reform UK imploding from within?“In turmoil? Absolutely. Imploding? Decidedly not.” That was the sharpest No case, but Yes prevailed: a clear verdict that Reform’s internal disorder looks more consequential than its electoral resilience.
- YES 73%Do the names of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats no longer reflect their actual policies?“Politically homeless” was the room’s defining mood: Yes won decisively, with voters treating the old party labels as branding left behind by the parties themselves.
- YES 62%Is "war" between Reform and Restore keeping the status quo?The right’s internal war was judged to be protecting the status quo, with the sharpest warning that its factions are “turning their fire on each other rather than the system they oppose”.
- YES 60%Should Nigel Farage accept Rupert Lowe's offer to work together?Three in five voters here backed Farage taking up Rupert Lowe's olive branch, yet the sharpest, most-respected voice on the page belonged to the opposition — a No arguing gleefully that a split right suits everyone else fine.
- NO 53%Will Farage be Reform leader by end of the year?The chamber that once carried Farage to Brexit victory now can't agree whether he'll even keep his own job, with a narrow no putting the odds against him lasting the year as Reform leader on 47% support for yes. That the doubt runs thickest among the youngest voters, who broke against him most heavily of any age group, hints at a generational read of Farage less as an insurgent and more as an ageing brand facing internal rivals and a security row of his own making.
- YES 66%Andy Burnham is your next prime minister. Will it be same old?Scepticism, not enthusiasm, carried this one: two-thirds of voters here reckon Burnham's "most radical change in 40 years" will look a lot like the last regime, with the loudest Yes voice essentially calling him Starmer in different clothes.
- YES 72%Is American-style partisan polarization invading UK politics?The one age group that broke against the diagnosis was the one living through it hardest at work and online: the 35-44s split almost evenly, while everyone either side of them, from 25-34s to the handful of over-65s (unanimous), declared British politics already Americanised, delivering a comfortable three-in-four verdict overall.
- YES 58%Is the Labour Party a threat to the United Kingdom?A verdict that looks decisive on paper but fractures oddly by generation: Labour's sharpest critics on this chamber's evidence weren't the greying voters of Tory folklore but the youngest cohort, while the 25-34s were the one group to actually back the government.
- YES 63%Should Nigel Farage face a parliamentary standards probe over £5m in donations from a convicted fraudster?Yes carried the chamber by 26 points, but the coalition behind it was younger and more male than the result suggests — 25-34s voted three-to-one for a probe while women split against it.
- YES 64%Is the Green Party a danger to British Society?Voters called the Green Party a danger to British society by 64% to 36%, with women (73% yes) far more convinced than men, who split almost evenly.
- NO 61%Is Reform UK a danger to British Society?No won it, 33 to 21, but the age lines don't march in step: the 25-34 bloc (n=23) split 39% yes while the smaller 35-44 group ran 63% yes, no tidy generational story here.
- TIEDWould a Makerfield by-election victory justify making Andy Burnham prime minister without a leadership contest?A dead heat — 15-15 — on whether Andy Burnham could simply inherit Downing Street off the back of a Wigan by-election. But the deadlock conceals a sharp gender split: men backed the shortcut by two to one, women rejected it by three to one.